Healthy troops complete their missions. Vaccines will keep you and your team healthy.

Vaccines shield you from dangerous germs. These germs can kill you or cause lasting
harm. Vaccines prevent infections, such as tetanus, typhoid fever, measles, yellow
fever, smallpox, and anthrax, to name just a few.

Vaccines keep units fit to fight. We fight as a team. All team members must be healthy.

Vaccines benefit both individuals and units. Vaccines keep people healthy so they
can live better lives. Vaccines keep people healthy so they can do their mission.
Vaccines help you return home healthy.

Vaccines have kept troops healthy since the days of George Washington.

George Washington protected his troops from smallpox in 1777 using a forerunner
of vaccination called “variolation”. We lost the Battle of Quebec in 1776, because
our troops weren't protected against smallpox. Americans suffered 5,500 smallpox
casualties among 10,000 colonial troops. The task force commander, Major General
John Thomas, died of smallpox.

From 1777 to today, vaccines prevented American troops from dangerous infections.
Typhoid vaccine reduced typhoid casualties from 20,000 in Spanish-American War of
1898 to just 1,500 in World War I. During all of World War II, only 12 cases of
tetanus occurred among vaccinated US troops, but numerous tetanus deaths occurred
among the unvaccinated Germany Army (Wehrmacht).

Vaccines are among the most important accomplishments in medicine. Vaccines have
saved more lives throughout the world than any other medical invention. Vaccines
have saved more lives than antibiotics or surgery. Only clean water has saved more
lives than vaccines.